[Skulldog]

Is it ok to download Duke!Zone 500 Levels file from The Shareware Collection CD Website?

[Mikko]

No. Severe punishments will follow.

[Fox]

Technically it is piracy, so you are not allowed to post here.

[Skulldog]

Fox, on 29 May 2013 - 01:43 PM, said:

Technically it is piracy, so you are not allowed to post here.

Yea, I kinda thought is was in the gray zone!

[Radar]

Fox, on 29 May 2013 - 01:43 PM, said:

Technically it is piracy, so you are not allowed to post here.

Technically, they were selling maps they didn't even make but instead stole from the internet and paid the original artists nothing, so screw them.

[Fox]

Still piracy.

[Skulldog]

Radar, on 29 May 2013 - 02:16 PM, said:

Technically, they were selling maps they didn't even make but instead stole from the internet and paid the original artists nothing, so screw them.

They were not really selling the Maps or anything all was available for download. on the internet, but the internet was so dam slow back then.
They just made a CD-ROM so you would not have to download every single map. It was not common to have a CD -ROM burner back then either.
You just paid for a nice CD to load the maps on your computer. My hard drive was only 450mb back then. Maps always got deleted to free up space
on the hard drive.

[TerminX]

I wouldn't call it piracy at all, I would call the price they charged for the product a distribution fee (which they already collected when they distributed it via retail in the first place).

[Skulldog]

So it is ok to download Duke!Zone 500 levels file from The Shareware Collection CD Website.

[Lunick]

So what if we posted the maps (I don't know why) and not the software that was bundled with it?

[TerminX]

Micky C, on 29 May 2013 - 06:58 PM, said:

So what if we posted the maps (I don't know why) and not the software that was bundled with it?

That would certainly be legal with no ambiguity.

[Lunick]

Well the addon is not exactly hard to find on the internet but http://www.mediafire...UKEZONEMAPS.zip

[leilei]

The "Shareware CD" archive at the Internet Archive jumped the shark ages ago when it decided to add russian-based warez compilations which sadly aren't still removed. Someone there is perverting the DMCA sanctions archive.org has...


Someone needs to do something about this shit before something terribad happens, as I used to love the place for the few legal CDs of actual shareware there, and Computer Chronicles archives.